"The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics."

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Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

Imre Lakatos

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“I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.”
“Prayer in private results in boldness in public.”
“There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.”
“Evil societies always kill their consciences.”
“Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.”

Source : William Inge (1979). “4 plays”
“Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.”
“Nobodyâ€™s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.”

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